Toy car



Patented Feb. 20, i923.

it "A FREDERICK Gr. PERKINS, OF BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY.

TOY one.

Application filed June 21, 1921. Serial No. 479,307.

1. 0 ZZ fui/tom it may concern.'

Be it known thatl, FnnnnnrciLG. PERKINS, a citizen of the United States, and resident oli1 Bayonne, in the county of Hudson and State ot New Jersey, have invented certain new and useitul Improvements in rloy Cars, ot which the following is a specilication.

This invention relates to toy car. `lts object is the production of a car provided with swiveling trucks, that have each journaled therein a roller with a pair of rolling portions.

The accompanying drawings exemplify the inventio-n and in which Fig. l represents a side elevation oi one of the cars with tragmentary portions of a couple of other cars; Fig. 2 shows an enlarged section ot Fig. l on the line 2, 2; Fig. 3 indicates a section ot Fig. 2 on the line 3, 3; Fig. 4 is a section oi" Fig. 2 on the line 4, 4; Fig. 5 shows an enlarged bottoni view ot one oit the trucks oi the car and 6 indicates an elevation ot' a fragmentary portion of a modied detail.

The car is indicated with the body comprising the floor 2O having the extended portions 2l and the sides 22. A coupling 23, by means ot the pins 24, connects the extending portions 2l.

A pair o'll trucks is swiveled to the body olz the car. Each truck comprises a truck trame with the top plate 30 practically circular in contour and with the central open ine; 3l. Depending side journal lugs 32 er;- tcnd trom opposite sioles o't the plate 3() and have formed therein elongated journal bear ing openings Bepending t'orward and att lugs 34 and 35 entend 'from the top plate iii), and the lug has termed therewith the horizontal member 3G which terminates in the flange 3"?. The flange 37 is Jfastened to the lngI 35 by means ot the rivet 3S. The plate Si() is swiveled to the iioor 20 by means oi the king bolt 4t). .i roller supporting traine is located below and spaced troni the member liti and comprises the bottoni plate LS with the end tianges 44 and rihe `tia-nge 44 is fastened to the lug 234 by means ot. the rivet 46 and the flange 45 is fastened to the lug 35 by means oi' the rivet 3S. lournal pins 48 extend through the horizontal member 36 and the bottoni plate 43. Guide rollers 49 are journaled on the pins 4S. Each truck frame has provided therefor a spool shaped roller comprising the rolling portions 50 that are connected by the connecting portion 5l. Journaling pins 52 eX- tend from the portions 50 and engage the openings 33 in the lugs 32.

A track comprises strips 58 spaced apart to produce a gnide opening 54. A plate 55 is connected to the strips 53 by means ot the tacks 56. Fins 57 extend through the strips 53 and the plate 55 to secure the track in place. it is t0 be understood that the strips 53 can be curved to form curved tracks.

ln Fig. 6 the truck of the car is modified by dispensing with the bottom plate 43 and securing to the horizontal member 86 oi the truck traine the guide lugs 60 by means of the rivets 61.

To use the car the strips 53 with their plate are .i'astenedto the floor by means of the pins 5T. The rolling portions 50 are placed on the strips 53 and the guide rollers 49 or the guide lugs are located in the guide opening 54. The car can then be moved on the track or strips 53 without disarrangeinentas the guide rollers 49 or the lugs 60 will maintain it in operative position.

Having described my invention what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim 1. In a car the combination ol a body, a pair of trucks swiveled to the said body, a spool shaped roller journaled in each truck, a pair of lugs formed with each truck, a bottom plate spaced from and connected to said lugs, journal pins extending between i one ot said lugs and Said bottom plate and guide rollers journaled on said pins.

2. ln combination the body of a car, a pair ot trucks swiyeled to the body. a roller sup porting frame connected to each truck, guide rollers Jfor each roller supporting trame, a. spool shaped roller journaled in each truck and a pair oi strips spared apart forming a guide track for the guide rol ters ot the truck. the said guide rollers extending into the space between the strips.

ln a car the combination oil a body. a pair ot' trucks swiveled to said body, each truck comprisingl a truck Yframe with a top plate. depending side journal lugs having elongated journal bearings extending from the top plate, a roller with a pair oi rolling portions located between said journal lugs,

journal pins extending from the rolling pora roller supporting frame and guide rollers tions and engaging the elongated journal journaled between said horizontal member 10 bearings in the side journal lugs, depending and `said bottom plate. o

forward and aft lugs extending from Said Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city top plate a horizontal' member formed with of New York in the county of New York and one of the forward and aft lugs with its end State of New York this 15th day of June fastened to the other, a bottom plate con- A. D. 1921.

neoted to said forward and aft lugs forming FREDERICK G. ERKINS. 

